Car-replacer



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No. 230,716. Patented Aug. 3,1880.

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NJETERS. PHOTO-LITNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SANFORD D. BEEVE, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

CAR-RE'PLACER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,716, dated August3, 1880.

Application filed March 25, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SANFORD D. REEVE, of Aurora, in the county of Kaneand State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Railway-Car Replacers; and I hereby declare the following to beai'ull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to which my invention relates to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a parthereof, and in which Figures 1 and 2 represent a perspective view of thetwo parts of my apparatus. Fig. 3 represents a plan view of the underside of Fig. 2; and Fig. at represents a plan view of my improvedcar-replacers as arranged and applied to a pair of derailed wheels.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention relates to that class of devices employed for replacingcars upon a railwaytrack; and itconsists in the combination andarrangement-of the several parts, as hereinafter more fully describedand claimed.

In the drawings, or represents a steel or iron bar of about from threeto live feet in length, provided with a claw, I), at its rear end, and atongue, 0, at the other end, near the base of which is loosely pivoted aclamp, 1, provided with an arm, 0, and a claw, r, at its outer end.

A represents a base of hard-wood plank, upon the upper surface of whichare firmly attached two steel or iron plates, ff, provided with flangesg g, and upon the under side thereof are also tirmlyattached two or moremetal plates or strips, 2', preferably of thick boiler-plate steel,provided with a series of spurs, l.

The operation of my improved railway-car replacer is as follows: The bara. is attached by its clamp 01 to the outside of the rail B, over whichthe derailed train is standing, with the claw b on a tie out far enoughto catch the rim or flange of the wheel 0 on its inside edge. Againstthe inside of the other rail, B, is placed the base A, so that theflange g of the platef shall catch the flange of the wheel 0 upon itsouter edge or side next to the rail B.

(No model.)

When the rail or bar a and base A are placed in the position asindicated and described the ear is drawn forward over the apparatus,

which, by the construction and arrangement just described, causes thewheels 0 0, as they pass forward, to mount the rails B B. The flange ofwheel 0 being pushed over toward B by the flange g, and the flange ofwheel obeing pushed in the same manner by its action against the insideedge of rail a, and by the time that the wheel 0 has passed over thetongue 0 its flange is again on the inside of the rail B and the wheel 0is in its place, the level part of the base A being made thick enough toraise the tread of the wheel above the top ofthe rail.

The tongue cot' bar (1. forms an inclined plane, its end resting uponthe top of rail B,

thus causing the wheel 0 to roll down gradually, and at the same timeprevents the other end of the bar a from "kickin g up, and therebybecoming displaced, as would be the case when made withontthe tongue 0.The claws, clamp, tongue, and spurs, by their hold, tend to keep theapparatus in the desired position, so that an entiretrain may readily bereplaced upon the rails with great facility.

When the wheels are derailed upon the other side of the track from thatshown the bar a is placed outside of the rail B and the base A againstthe opposite rail, when plate f, with its flange y, will operate.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The base A, provided with the flanges g g and spurs l. substantiallyas and for the purpose specified.

2. The bar a, provided with the swiveled and claw clamp d, claw b, andbeveled tongue 0, in combination with the base A, provided with theflanges gg and spurs 1., substantially as and for the purpose specified.

SANFORD D. REEVE.

NVitnesses:

WM. 0. WEBBER, G. E. SIMPSON.

